Quotes by George Stevens - Page 1

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.
George Stevens / Film Director
Counts
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The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.
George Stevens / Film Director
Instrument
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
George Stevens / Film Director
Might
Scandal
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
George Stevens / Film Director
Men
Advantage
Want
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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
George Stevens / Film Director
Consciousness
Singular
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My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.
George Stevens / Film Director
Creative
Life Is
Wonderful
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In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.
George Stevens / Film Director
Shooting
Time People Know
Guns
Notice
Westerns
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George Stevens / Film Director
Arrogance
Brutality
Capable
Despise
Fierce
Within
Discover
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I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing.
George Stevens / Film Director
Method
New Ideas
Presentation
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For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
George Stevens / Film Director
Contributing
Lines
Thinking
Anywhere
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Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.
George Stevens / Film Director
Location
Pleasant
Love Me Country
Camp
Landscapes
Outfit
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
George Stevens / Film Director
Men
Hands
Want Him
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The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
George Stevens / Film Director
Aggravation
Degradation
Remember
Intended
Presented
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When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.
George Stevens / Film Director
Admitting
Care
Guests
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It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.
George Stevens / Film Director
Cop
Delicate
Handle
Sensitive
Traffic
Vast
Executive
Moviemaking
Paraphernalia
Poem
Same Time
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I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.
George Stevens / Film Director
Audience
Communion
Fascinated
Moved
Quiet
Rapture
Theater
Absolutely
Held
Sounds
Truly
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I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
George Stevens / Film Director
Hepburn
Qualified
Further
Work People Done
Greatest Pleasure
Photographing
Westerns
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I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick.
George Stevens / Film Director
Cameraman
Caught
Fence
Opportunity Me Day
Assistant
Climbed
Disastrous
Quick
Showing
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